Musicola: Navidrome Player
Self-hosted music & lyrics
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Play the music on your own Navidrome server on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV: radio that never ends, lyrics that follow along, and artists in full.
Musicola plays the music on your own Navidrome server, on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. It takes you from a song to its artist, and from an album to music like it.
Made for listening, not managing
• Home that knows you: recently played, recently added, your artists, most played, and mixes made from what you actually listen to.
• Radio that never ends: start radio from any song, album or artist. Autoplay keeps the music going with songs like the last ones you heard.
• Lyrics that follow along: synced lyrics light up line by line. Tap a line to jump there.
• Crossfade: each song fades into the next, from 2 to 12 seconds, while an album played in order runs on without a gap.
• Artists in full: biographies, top songs and similar artists when your server has them, and every album, newest first.
Made for iPad
Bigger artwork, Now Playing with the cover beside the controls in landscape, and lyrics alongside.
Apple TV, properly
Big artwork, the Siri Remote, and what's playing on the Top Shelf.
Everywhere on iPhone
Widgets, CarPlay, Siri and Shortcuts, AirPlay and the Lock Screen.
No server yet?
Choose Look around first. Musicola fills itself with Apple Music's charts as 30-second previews, with no subscription or permission needed, plus an album that comes with the app. Connect your server whenever you're ready.
Free, with Musicola Plus if you want more
Musicola is free to download and use. Musicola Plus is a choice of one-off purchases, never a subscription, and works with Family Sharing:
• Tier 1: download albums, playlists and mixes to your iPhone or iPad and play them with no connection.
• Tier 2: everything in Tier 1, plus the Mix Builder: mixes made from your listening, genres, decades and artists.
• Tier 3: everything in Tier 2, plus pick up on another device where you left off, lossless streaming and downloads, and Listening Stats: your top artists, albums and songs by week, month or year.
Tier 3 is everything. Already own a tier? You're offered the upgrade at a lower price, so you never pay twice.
Your music stays yours
Musicola doesn't track you, show ads or collect analytics. Your plays, favourites and playlists live on your own server.
What you need
A Navidrome server you can reach from your device, at home or over HTTPS. Setup help: musicola.app/support
The music in the screenshots is shared under Creative Commons and credited at musicola.app/credits.
Navidrome is an independent open-source project; Musicola is not affiliated with or endorsed by it.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
• Crossfade: Settings › Crossfade fades each song into the next, from 2 to 12 seconds. An album played in order still runs on without a gap. Free for everyone.
• Listening Stats now match on every device: each device keeps its plays in a private playlist on your own server, "Listening (kept by Musicola)", which you'll also see in Navidrome's web page.
• Siri plays a saved mix when you ask for it by name.
• CarPlay lists Your mixes.
• Edit mix can rename a mix.
• Songs you downloaded at High quality can be downloaded again in Lossless.
• Downloads carry on while your iPhone or iPad is locked.
• Enjoying Musicola? Settings › Rate Musicola takes you straight to the App Store review page on iPhone and iPad.
• iPhone on its side: Now Playing puts the cover, the lyrics or the queue beside the controls.
• Settings, Musicola Plus and Privacy have a new look, with each explanation under the setting it describes.
• Better mixes: a mix by an artist reaches their whole catalogue, genre mixes go by each song's main genre, and every mix card shows the mix's own albums.
• Saved mixes now sync between your devices, and no longer leave empty playlists on your server.
• Albums no longer get stuck with your server's placeholder cover.
• Music carries on by itself when your connection comes back.
• The album that comes with Musicola plays with no server.
• Musicola Plus: buying or restoring tells you what happened, right beside the button, and you're never offered a tier you already own.
• Apple TV: Settings is the cog in the tab bar, and its pages sit in the middle of the screen.
The developer, Scott Dobson, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Scott Dobson
- Size
- 54.1 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. - Apple TV
Requires tvOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Infrequent
Profanity or Crude Humor
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Plus: Tier 1 to Tier 2 $0.99
- Plus: Tier 1 to Tier 3 $1.99
- Plus: Tier 2 to Tier 3 $0.99
- Musicola Plus Tier 1 $0.99
- Musicola Plus Tier 3 $2.99
- Musicola Plus Tier 2 $1.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Scott Dobson

